PHP for checking language?

[ROUBOS]

Hi,
what's the php code we use when we want to check the language before we display some html code? For example display an image if Greek language is selected, and a different image when the English language is selected???

thanks

[webgift]

Hi,
In case that you want to write this piece of code inside a function you must call the global variable $lang first. In any other case such a index.php file of your template you can use the variable without call it.

global $lang;

if ($lang == 'greek') {
      echo '<img src="gr_image_path.filetype" alt="Image Description in Greek" width="80" height="80" />'."\n";
} elseif ($lang == 'english') {
     echo '<img src="en_image_path.filetype" alt="Image Description in English" width="80" height="80" />'."\n";
}

[ROUBOS]

Did not work. This is how I used it in my template's index.php:

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<div id="banner-right">
if ($lang == 'Greek') {
echo '<a href="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/aitema-krateses.html"><img class="calendar-img" src="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/templates/aslanisvillage-template/images/reservation_request_gr.png" alt="Αίτημα Κράτησης" border="0" /></a>'."\n";
} elseif ($lang == 'English') {
echo '<a href="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/reservation-request.html"><img class="calendar-img" src="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/templates/aslanisvillage-template/images/reservation_request.png" alt="Reservation Request" border="0" /></a>'."\n";
}
</div>


[webgift]

You must open and close php

<div id="banner-right">
<?php
            if ($lang == 'greek') {
               echo '<a href="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/aitema-krateses.html"><img class="calendar-img" src="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/templates/aslanisvillage-template/images/reservation_request_gr.png" alt="Αίτημα Κράτησης" border="0" /></a>'."\n";
            } elseif ($lang == 'english') {
               echo '<a href="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/reservation-request.html"><img class="calendar-img" src="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/templates/aslanisvillage-template/images/reservation_request.png" alt="Reservation Request" border="0" /></a>'."\n";
            }

?>         
</div>

[ROUBOS]

hahaha why didn't I think of that?
Thanks a lot.

[ROUBOS]

OK, what am I doing wrong, it's not showing anything now .

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<div id="banner-right">
<?php
            if ($lang == &#39;Greek&#39;) {
               echo &#39;<a href="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/aitema-krateses.html"><img class="calendar-img" src="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/templates/aslanisvillage-template/images/reservation_request_gr.png" alt="Αίτημα Κράτησης" border="0" /></a>&#39;."\n";
            } elseif ($lang == &#39;English&#39;) {
               echo &#39;<a href="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/reservation-request.html"><img class="calendar-img" src="http://www.aslanisvillage.com/templates/aslanisvillage-template/images/reservation_request.png" alt="Reservation Request" border="0" /></a>&#39;."\n";
            }

?>         
</div>

[ROUBOS]

Problem was that Greek and English had to be entered in lower case greek, and english

[webgift]

Yes. It was my fault. I corrected them.